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Re: A caliber 3157 with Gruen-Weber case for sale. [message #5121 is a reply to message #5115] |
Fri, 20 February 2015 05:06   |
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JackW
Messages: 1993 Registered: May 2013 Location: Denver
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Some times it isn't whom you know or even what you know. It is where you live...
wildtoad lives about 20 minutes from me. We met... Super nice guy (he's a geologist so that is a natural) and he had a nice watch.

Turns out that Gary is right that the dial looks a bit off center. The lug at 10-o'clock was repaired. The dial is really nice; albeit a few marks from wear likely from being uncased. Hands are period correct but the dial has lumed hour markers suggesting that this had luminescent hands at one point. These hands I think are also too short.
I still bought it.
Suggestions on the correct hands would be nice.
All I know is based on hard work & writing by others. I can only aspire to augment this body of knowledge. If I am wrong it is because of my own failings. -me
"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Newton
[Updated on: Fri, 20 February 2015 05:08] Report message to a moderator
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Re: A caliber 3157 with Gruen-Weber case for sale. [message #5129 is a reply to message #5128] |
Fri, 20 February 2015 19:12  |
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JackW
Messages: 1993 Registered: May 2013 Location: Denver
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Afire,
I appreciate your thoughts. 
I was looking at the photo again and you are right, the hands do line up with the dial markings nicely. Those hands as they are are nicely blued; I think new lume would look out of place with the old. I'm a bit reluctant to alter the dial at all. Even removing the old lume and replacing with new like on the example you show.
My main concern with this one is the case and the repaired lug. I'll take some better images to show what I'm talking about. I want to get this to wearable condition.
All I know is based on hard work & writing by others. I can only aspire to augment this body of knowledge. If I am wrong it is because of my own failings. -me
"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Newton
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